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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: frankiew on March 24, 2023, 02:29:04 PM
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i remember in 97 listening to the game on the radio in the truck them losing to Chattanooga
98---no recollection
2000---i remember a buddy giving me a thumbs up they beat Penn then i was sitting on couch as Florida trounced us
01---i was at a friends house as we beat Charlotte, don't recall Kansas, I remember being upset as we lost to zona
02-I sat by window as we lost to kansas
03-i remember being worried we would lose to WKU, then Notre Dame destroyed us
04- I remeber sitting at kitchen table as we beat cincy then getting stick to my stomach as duke beat us
05--my dad was flipping out at half against FDU, didn't watch Nevada game, Wasn't worried agaimst UW-M, sat through Zona game though I was about to turn it off, skippe dLouisville game....changed shirts at half against UNC
06-Watched us blow it vs washington
07--had no idea we were playing
09---watched last 4 minutes
11--missed UNLV, watched 2nd half vs kansas
13-Colorado, watched like last 10 minutes--Miami--2nd half?
21-drexel at home--loyola at bar then went for long walk
22-chattanooga at bar--houston at a different bar
23--arkansas at bar
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I’d rather forget the Illini tournament history…
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i remember in 97 listening to the game on the radio in the truck them losing to Chattanooga
98---no recollection
2000---i remember a buddy giving me a thumbs up they beat Penn then i was sitting on couch as Florida trounced us
01---i was at a friends house as we beat Charlotte, don't recall Kansas, I remember being upset as we lost to zona
02-I sat by window as we lost to kansas
03-i remember being worried we would lose to WKU, then Notre Dame destroyed us
04- I remeber sitting at kitchen table as we beat cincy then getting stick to my stomach as duke beat us
05--my dad was flipping out at half against FDU, didn't watch Nevada game, Wasn't worried agaimst UW-M, sat through Zona game though I was about to turn it off, skippe dLouisville game....changed shirts at half against UNC
06-Watched us blow it vs washington
07--had no idea we were playing
09---watched last 4 minutes
11--missed UNLV, watched 2nd half vs kansas
13-Colorado, watched like last 10 minutes--Miami--2nd half?
21-drexel at home--loyola at bar then went for long walk
22-chattanooga at bar--houston at a different bar
23--arkansas at bar
No "spent the game on the toilet with gas"? Sad.
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I'm not going into all that detail. The 1962-1963 team was the first one that captured my imagination and interest. They defeated Bowling Green (Howard Komives and Nate Thurmond) in the first round. They then lost to eventual champ Loyola in the Sweet 16. I don't recall if we watched on the little fuzzy black & white TV or listened on the radio.
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I'm not going into all that detail. The 1962-1963 team was the first one that captured my imagination and interest. They defeated Bowling Green (Howard Komives and Nate Thurmond) in the first round. They then lost to eventual champ Loyola in the Sweet 16. I don't recall if we watched on the little fuzzy black & white TV or listened on the radio.
Fucking Loyola. I went to an Illini Loyola game at the Rosemont Horizon that the Illini lost.
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I watched Frankie drop 30 on KU live in San Antonio 2001.
In our heyday, I generally preferred to watch games at home alone (so I could focus on the games without distractions). I remember being so amped up after the Arizona comeback I went for a 6-7 mile run after the game to burn that excess energy. Lol
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Not Illini related but I was also in San Antonio for the Final Four that KU beat Memphis in. My best friend owns a major bar in SA (it was the “home bar” for UNC that year). We had tickets for the championship game but got really drunk on patron and never made it. We said “we’ll go at halftime.” Haha yeah, right. I watched the overtime in the piano bar he has in his place (there’s like 4 bars in one place). I rooted for KU like they were Illinois because I wanted to bathe in Weber lovers tears.
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Not Illini related but I was also in San Antonio for the Final Four that KU beat Memphis in. My best friend owns a major bar in SA (it was the “home bar” for UNC that year). We had tickets for the championship game but got really drunk on patron and never made it. We said “we’ll go at halftime.” Haha yeah, right. I watched the overtime in the piano bar he has in his place (there’s like 4 bars in one place). I rooted for KU like they were Illinois because I wanted to bathe in Weber lovers tears.
NEOhioIlliniFan, or whatever his name was, always knew you were a Kansas fan.
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NEOhioIlliniFan, or whatever his name was, always knew you were a Kansas fan.
If I were a Kansas fan you’d think I’d be able to name a couple of their players since the Morris Twins. But alas, I can’t. I’ve always hated Kansas. I lived in Kansas a couple of years in the 90s and I found KU fans mostly insufferable. I never hated Self, though. And to some, that made you a “Kansas fan.”
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I lived in Kansas a couple of years in the 90s... I never hated Self, though. And to some, that made you a “Kansas fan."
NEOhioIlliniFan would claim this was all further evidence of your duplicity in claiming to be an Illini fan when you were always really a Kansas fan.
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If I were a Kansas fan you’d think I’d be able to name a couple of their players since the Morris Twins. But alas, I can’t. I’ve always hated Kansas. I lived in Kansas a couple of years in the 90s and I found KU fans mostly insufferable. I never hated Self, though. And to some, that made you a “Kansas fan.”
Yep. Nothing spells KU fan like 20 years on Illini message boards.
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Yep. Nothing spells KU fan like 20 years on Illini message boards.
That doesn’t mean anything… see Dominic
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Yep. Nothing spells KU fan like 20 years on Illini message boards.
He probably would claim you are the master of the Long Con.
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Sure thing.
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I'm convinced NEOhio and NOVA were plants. Just belligerent idiots to people trying to enjoy a thing.
Other than AZ 05 at a packed bar the memories after that are a lot of "well this sucks" sitting on my or someone else's house watching us lose to a less talented team and/or coaching the game away. This would describe the Bill Walton Game, the Brandon Roy game, the Seth Greenberg game, the we lost to a fucking 12 seed? game, the Sister Jean game and the shit since.
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I might eventually get motivated to comment on all these but the loss to 12th seeded WKU was the safest bracket pick of all time.
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I might eventually get motivated to comment on all these but the loss to 12th seeded WKU was the safest bracket pick of all time.
Yep
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I might eventually get motivated to comment on all these but the loss to 12th seeded WKU was the safest bracket pick of all time.
True. My expectations for that team were so low that one never would have crossed my mind.
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I'm convinced NEOhio and NOVA were plants. Just belligerent idiots to people trying to enjoy a thing.
Other than AZ 05 at a packed bar the memories after that are a lot of "well this sucks" sitting on my or someone else's house watching us lose to a less talented team and/or coaching the game away. This would describe the Bill Walton Game, the Brandon Roy game, the Seth Greenberg game, the we lost to a fucking 12 seed? game, the Sister Jean game and the shit since.
Beating Kansas before losing to Arizona, and the Louisville/Syracuse games in 89 were satisfying, the National Semifinal in '05
Not a lot there. Still would be an order of magnitude worse to be a Purdue fan.
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I might eventually get motivated to comment on all these but the loss to 12th seeded WKU was the safest bracket pick of all time.
Yep. We overachieved in conference and it was an instant upset pick. Still a kick in the nuts.
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Beating Kansas before losing to Arizona, and the Louisville/Syracuse games in 89 were satisfying, the National Semifinal in '05
Not a lot there. Still would be an order of magnitude worse to be a Purdue fan.
Yup. Also we were heavily favored but beating UWMilw on the Pearl redemption tour was cathartic.
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1989 F;ying ILLINI, every moment.
2005 Tourney Team, actually playing ILLINI defense the last few minutes to beat AZ. If they had played that the entire game, AZ would have been thoroughly beaten.
2005 Loss to UNC, still stings, shot like 40 3's that game and they still almost didn't beat us with the cheater class, class.
The Kaufman/Anderson shots. Beat Iowa/Indiana both rivals (not tourney but still).
But the singular moment that sucked me in for life was when I was 12, and Bird/Magic went at it in 79. That game shaped my interest and the rest of the nations in the NCAA March Madness every year.
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Yep. We overachieved in conference and it was an instant upset pick. Still a kick in the nuts.
You mean that 38-33 barn burner at home against PSU didn't make you think we could do some damage in the tourney?